links for 2007-04-06

“First of all, there’s a question whether a recess appointment can be made with someone who doesn’t even have a pending confirmation in the Senate. Sam Fox’s nomination had been pulled from the Senate by Bush.”

Jesus v. The Devil: “While the messages are irrelevant, zoning ordinances require signs to pertain to what businesses sell, do not block sidewalks and do not create a hazard, Mayor Ron San Angelo said.”

“But after passage of civil rights acts in 1964 and 1965, King began challenging the nation’s fundamental priorities. He maintained that civil rights laws were empty without “human rights” – including economic rights. For people too poor to eat at

“An atheist group leader says he is the victim of a religious hate crime. Freethought Association of Canada president Justin Trottier said he was assaulted at Ryerson University earlier this week while he and a colleague were hanging posters for a coming

‘Dr. King declared that he could no longer confine his energies to the domestic struggle for civil rights. Instead, his deep religious faith compelled him to denounce the war in Vietnam, both because it was wrong and because of what it was doing to Americ